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A Birth Of A Nation The Bicycle Thieves - 1,300 words
A Birth Of A Nation - The Bicycle Thieves In that
paper, I will try to compare two films which are A
Birth of a Nation directed by D.W.Griffith and The
Bicycle Thieves directed by De Sica. After giving
the story of the films, I will try to explain
their technical features and their similarities. A
Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith Griffith can
be seen as the first 'modern' director, his
greatest achievements being the historical epics
The Birth Of A Nation. When it was released, it
was one of the longest films ever made, over three
hours in length. The prologue depicts the
introduction of slavery to America in the
seventeenth century and the beginnings of the
abolitionist movement. The maj ...
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A Moment Of Innocence - 1,154 words
A Moment Of Innocence A Moment of Innocence:
Reconciling the Past When I walked into class that
day I was indifferent to the movie that we would
be watching that evening. Five minutes into A
Moment of Innocence (1995) by Mohsan Makhmalbaf, I
was hooked. By taking a pseudo-documentary style
Makhmalbaf lets us see the people as they are
transformed into the characters from the
director's past. This style allows us to "grow up"
with them and to relate to both sides of the
story. By taking a true event and fictionalizing,
at least part of it, Makhmalbaf has us trying to
figure out what parts have been added to the
narrative and which parts truly speak to history.
A documentary does not strive to ...
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Accidents - 1,643 words
... ike metallurgy, forensics, etc. 5. Obtain all
other non-privileged materials gathered by the
SIB. 6. Obtain a list of the SIB witnesses. Once
all the data and evidence has been collected the
advisors are brought in to review all the
information and make judgments and evaluations,
not to mention aid in the writing of the report. A
maintenance advisor reviews maintenance records,
documentation, personnel and supervision. A
Medical advisor should review: 1. Medical
qualifications 2. Postmortem and toxicology
reports. Which by the way are obtained from the
SIB flight surgeon. 3. Post-accident medical
examination records of survivors. 4. And last but
not least autopsy protocols and medical re ...
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Alec Guinness - 1,318 words
Alec Guinness Alec Guinness writes My Name Escapes
Me - The Diary of a Retiring Actor - in purpose of
documentation of his performance to commit his
story to the public record. In the diary, Alec
Guinness, at 82, shows his wishes to spend his
declining years as, "a retiring actor"; he has not
done with acting; he is still performing; yet
retiring. This time his performance is committed
to words in the commissioned diary. I see a diary
as documentation of one's life, especially when it
is to be shown to public. By definition, a
document is a"formal paper bearing important or
official information". In the same sense, Alec
Guinnesss diary is a document of his "act" of
writing as Paul Matthew Pi ...
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Alternative Cinema - 1,558 words
Alternative Cinema The term alternative cinema has
certain connotations. To many, it is not
alternative, instead it is the way cinema was
meant to be viewed, in that the viewer should be
able to define the film in their own personal
terms. In the following essay, I will firstly
examine what the term alternative cinema means,
and secondly how Brechts theories are evident in
many elements of the films that have been
pigeon-holed as alternative cinema. The word
alternative is described in Collins English
Dictionary as: "Denoting a lifestyle, culture, art
form, etc., regarded by its adherents as
preferable to that of contemporary society because
it is less conventional, materialistic, or institu ...
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American Dominance By Kesey - 1,009 words
... g of the river, and makes his life frustrating
and challenging. Throughout the book, the river is
always Hank's potential enemy. He is constantly
checking the bank to see how much the water had
risen. "...Hank was worried that the boats might
be swept loose from their moorings, as they had
been last year,...Before going to bed, he put on
rubber boots over his pajamas and pulled on a
poncho and went out with a lantern to
check....Hank noted the water's height on the
marker at the dock--black water swirling at the
number five; five feet, then, above the normal
high tide mark..." (105-106) Hank is constantly
haunted by paranoia about the river rising and
destroying his belongings. This is h ...
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American Dominance By Kesey - 1,009 words
... g of the river, and makes his life frustrating
and challenging. Throughout the book, the river is
always Hank's potential enemy. He is constantly
checking the bank to see how much the water had
risen. "...Hank was worried that the boats might
be swept loose from their moorings, as they had
been last year,...Before going to bed, he put on
rubber boots over his pajamas and pulled on a
poncho and went out with a lantern to
check....Hank noted the water's height on the
marker at the dock--black water swirling at the
number five; five feet, then, above the normal
high tide mark..." (105-106) Hank is constantly
haunted by paranoia about the river rising and
destroying his belongings. This is h ...
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American Dominance In Works By Ken Kesey - 1,009 words
... flooding of the river, and makes his life
frustrating and challenging. Throughout the book,
the river is always Hank's potential enemy. He is
constantly checking the bank to see how much the
water had risen. ...Hank was worried that the
boats might be swept loose from their moorings, as
they had been last year,...Before going to bed, he
put on rubber boots over his pajamas and pulled on
a poncho and went out with a lantern to
check....Hank noted the water's height on the
marker at the dock--black water swirling at the
number five; five feet, then, above the normal
high tide mark... (105-106) Hank is constantly
haunted by paranoia about the river rising and
destroying his belongings. Thi ...
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American Indians - 929 words
American Indians Indians in eastern North America
possessed no alcohol at the beginning of the
colonial period. By 1800, so much alcohol flowed
through the Indian villages east of the
Mississippi that each community were forced to
decide to take it or not and they made a tragic
choice by taking it because it destroyed their
cultural. The Indians who drank did so to the
point of intoxication enjoyed the experience they
got from it. If Indians chose to drink out of
frustration and despair, they were not alone; as
social scientists have made clear, whenever
Western societies undergo periods of rapid
transition, rates of drinking increase.
Documentary evidence also suggests that some
Indians enj ...
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Androstenodione - 718 words
Androstenodione This past year a lot of things
have happened in the world. President Clinton
could possibly be impeached. Our government tried
to once again take over Sadaam Hussein. And Mark
McGwire hit 70 home runs to break Roger Maris
record of 61. During this extraordinary event in
the baseball world, one item of skepticism clouded
the entire accomplishment. During an interview
that he was giving next to his locker, a reporter
noticed a bottle on the top shelf. This bottle was
filled with a nutritional pill titled
androstenedione, a legal dietary supplement that
is a testosterone-producing drug that helps the
body repair itself after workouts. This
repairment, in turn, helps the person t ...
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Apache And Cherokee Indians - 631 words
Apache and Cherokee Indians Apache and Cherokee
Indians The Apache Indians of North America
prospered for years throughout Kansas, New Mexico,
and Arizona. They were a religious society who
believed in a "giver of life". As any complex
society today, The Apache had many inter-tribal
differences, although the tribe as a whole was
able to see through these conflicts. Women and the
extended family played an important role in the
society and also in the lives of young children.
Groups of different extended families, called
bands, often lived together and functioned
democratically. The Apache also evolved as the
coming of the white man changed their lives. These
Indians became adept at using hors ...
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Arthur Miller And Tennessee Williams, Including A Streetcar Named Desire - 4,340 words
Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, including A
Streetcar Named Desire (1947, film, 1951) and
Death of a Salesman (1949). He directed the
Academy Award-winning films Gentleman's Agreement
(1947) and On The Waterfront (1954), as well as
East of Eden (1955), A Face in the Crowd (1957),
Splendor in the Grass (1961), and The Last Tycoon
(1976). His two autobiographical novels, America,
America (1962) and The Arrangement (1967), were
turned into films in 1963 and 1968. Bibliography:
Koszarski, Richard, Hollywood Directors, 1941-1976
(1977). Jolson, Al
-------------------------------- (johl'-suhn) The
singer Al Jolson, b. Asa Yoelson in Lithuania,
c.1886, d. Oct. 23, 1950, immigrated with his fa ...
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Arthur Miller And Tennessee Williams, Including A Streetcar Named Desire - 4,269 words
... g the subject matter of Face to Face (1975)
overly familiar and rating his English-language
The Serpent's Egg (1977) an overall failure.
Autumn Sonata (1978) and From the Life of the
Marionettes (1980) were critical successes,
however, although the latter failed at the box
office. Fanny and Alexander (1983), a rich and
fantastic portrait of childhood in a theatrical
family, was regarded as one of his finest films
and won an Academy Award for best foreign language
film of 1983. Subsequently, Bergman directed After
the Rehearsal (1984), his meditation on a life in
the theater. WILLIAM S. PECHTER Bibliography:
Bergman, Ingmar, Bergman on Bergman (1973); Cowie,
Peter, Ingmar Bergman: A Criti ...
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Betty Boop - 767 words
Betty Boop Betty Boop The best case study in
animation to illustrate the powerful influence
society has over the types of films that are
produced is the story of Betty Boop. She was a
major cartoon character before the Production Code
of 1934 was put into place, and her dramatic and
fatal transformation illustrates how a product
created under one set of standards often withers
when placed in a new set. At the same time, the
Code alone cannot explain why this dizzy little
flapper degenerated so quickly. Betty Boop exists
today solely as a merchandising item. Betty's face
and figure can be found on T-shirts, posters, and
all sorts of things. Her current popularity in
merchandise is somewhat pu ...
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Black Elk Speaks - 1,277 words
Black Elk Speaks The division in the world among
the races always was and will be one of the
biggest issues that the people have to deal with
and solve. Many cultures, Indian culture is one of
the examples, were affected by the persecution of
the people who were though to be "superior" to
others. Indian culture was persecuted by whites,
which wanted to wipe off the Indian civilization
from the face of the world. The Native Americans
wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom
for their people. The Native Americans did not
consider "white way of living righteous" for them,
they were spiritual and had a different outlook on
life, and did not want interference from outside
world. In the ...
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Blair Witch Project An Analytical Essay - 636 words
Blair Witch Project An Analytical Essay Blair
Witch Project An Analytical Essay Anita Maiezza
Power of film David Grey December 5, 2000 The
Blair Witch Project is a mock documentary on three
film students: Heather, Mike and Shaun, who go out
and shoot their own documentary on the Blair
Witch. This Blair Witch apparently haunts a forest
in Burkittsville Maryland and these students are
going to find out firsthand if this rumor is true.
Unfortunately this rumor turns out to be fact and
all three characters are eventually hunted and
killed by the Blair witch. The scene which I have
chosen to analyze is a short ten second scene near
the very end of the movie. In this scene we see a
close up of Mi ...
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Capital Punishment Edward Earl Johnson - 1,955 words
Capital Punishment -Edward Earl Johnson Edward
Earl Johnson was put in death row when he was
eighteen. A documentary was made when he was
twenty-six, called "fourteen days in May." Edward
claimed all along that he was innocent yet he was
still executed. The documentary showed he had
lived for eight years at the Parchment state
penitentiary, Mississippi (death row.) Edward was
put to death row for the attempted rape of an
elderly white woman and the murder of a white
Marshall. The documentary tried to show his
innocence, the process of this is what this essay
will be about. The opening scenes from the
documentary showed the Parchment State
Penitentiary. You saw a large building inside of
barb ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 1,468 words
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Good 1 Charlotte Perkins
Gilman experienced astonishing success during her
life. When she died in 1935, she left behind a
legacy of ingenious writing. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman was one of the leading intellectuals of the
American womens movement in the first two decades
of the 20th century (Gilman, The Living of
Charlotte Perkins Gilman). Her literary works
explore the minds of remarkable and courageous
women. Charlotte Perkins Gilman left an impression
on society not only through her brilliant writings
and social reforms, but also in her own
perseverance in overcoming personal hardships.
Charlotte was born into the prominent Beecher
family (Gilman 3). In fact, the il ...
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Criticism Bridge At Andau - 374 words
Criticism Bridge At Andau John A. Franklin
Academic English 12 Mr. George May 19, 1999
Criticism on The Bridge at Andau The Bridge at
Andau was written in the mid 1950's by James A.
Michener. This is a documentary on the account of
Hungary's people and the communist influence from
Russia. Although the people of Hungary lost in
their fights with the ADO and the Russians, they
showed us how determination and the will to
survive can overcome even the strongest evil. It
is a shame that they didn't overcome all int he
end. Michener did an excellent job in preserving
and recording the account of the Hungarian people
as they were mistreated, abused, and murdered by
the Russians. The torture and abu ...
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Cultural Activism - 695 words
Cultural Activism In our society we have the
convenience of technology--computers, television
(the media, film, and video), and other means of
communication with the general public. Our society
has developed ways to convey ideas and beliefs
through the use of technology. In other parts of
the world, there are still some societies that are
not aware of this technology that our society
embraces. However, the growth of technology will
soon reach and combine with traditional cultural
societies. In Faye Ginsburg's article From Little
Things, Big Things Grow, she argues that these
latest products of indigenous expressive culture
are part of self-conscious efforts to sustain and
transform culture i ...
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